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by Mark Deeks
Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:04 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30647

Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

It's OK to marry your cousin. Men should sit down to urinate. Steve Irwin was really annoying. Alcohol is a scourge on society. The correct way to insert capital letters when using a keyboard is to go caps lock -> letter -> caps lock. Tea and coffee are too hot to drink and when they've cooled down ...
by Mark Deeks
Thu Nov 16, 2023 7:43 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 394792

Re: People you shouldn't trust

People with wind chimes in their garden. We live in a society, you sociopaths.
by Mark Deeks
Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:35 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275738

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

The Bakerloo line is so named as a portmanteau of Baker Street and Waterloo.
by Mark Deeks
Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:55 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
Replies: 32
Views: 6039

Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child

My parents used to have a copy of Constable's The Haywain in their (incredibly 1970s) front room. I didn't know you have copies of things at the time, sooo, yeah.
by Mark Deeks
Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:01 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

If you drink an orange juice within about an hour of brushing your teeth, why does it taste like actual arse?
by Mark Deeks
Tue Oct 03, 2023 4:53 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
Replies: 14
Views: 2626

Re: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?

In an entirely selfish answer, I found it remarkable the day that I found out (through Countdown-adjacent Quinn James) that NBA player Sam Dekker's name is an anagram of mine own. Two Ks in nine letters, it's gotta be unlikely.
by Mark Deeks
Tue Sep 19, 2023 8:04 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
Replies: 19
Views: 2084

Re: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)

implication that 'we know what they are like but let's not make a fuss as we are safe'
How on earth was this your takeaway?
by Mark Deeks
Tue Sep 19, 2023 7:15 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
Replies: 19
Views: 2084

Re: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)

This entirely male thread should maybe listen to women about why they don't often go to the police, so that we don't get comments such as...
Certainly going to the police is better than setting up a WhatsApp group.
...ones where we don't tell women "certainly" what is "better".
by Mark Deeks
Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Deathwatch 2017
Replies: 467
Views: 210160

Re: Deathwatch 2017

Sixto Rodriguez. Mrs Warboys from One Foot In The Grave. Heath Streak.
by Mark Deeks
Wed Sep 06, 2023 4:14 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275738

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

Duck's beaks look like dog's heads.

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by Mark Deeks
Mon Sep 04, 2023 8:58 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: I want to live long enough to see.......
Replies: 9
Views: 1628

Re: I want to live long enough to see.......

You should probably consider #6, at least. It's not working out as constructed.
by Mark Deeks
Mon Sep 04, 2023 5:53 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: I want to live long enough to see.......
Replies: 9
Views: 1628

Re: I want to live long enough to see.......

You'll never get #3 or #4. #6 is the likeliest I reckon.
by Mark Deeks
Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:42 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Now you are older what do you find yourself doing that your teenage self wouldn't do?
Replies: 6
Views: 1089

Re: Now you are older what do you find yourself doing that your teenage self wouldn't do?

Also, I eat mustard now, and de-escalate rather than escalate. Beyond that, my life is worryingly similar to what it was then. Eep.
by Mark Deeks
Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:36 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Now you are older what do you find yourself doing that your teenage self wouldn't do?
Replies: 6
Views: 1089

Re: Now you are older what do you find yourself doing that your teenage self wouldn't do?

I used the Essex County Council website to report a pothole the other day. No way back from that, it's over.
by Mark Deeks
Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:22 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: It started with a kiss
Replies: 19
Views: 2078

Re: It started with a kiss

You don't kiss people on the lips unless it's a romance thing, and I guess some people also do it to their kids. He did that, clearly used force to do it, did it on the biggest possible platform as a demonstration of power, it wasn't an isolated incident, and he was unrepentant. This is no witch hun...
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:31 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Why is it 50 years ago the yanks sent men to the moon but it seems landing on the moon atm is proving to be difficult? This isn't a "Moon Landings were fake" post but no progress in 50 years. C'mon Elon sort it out!! Because of the political importance given to it, absolutely immense amou...
by Mark Deeks
Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:32 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Paul Talmey, Countdown alumnus, is a subtitle writer.
by Mark Deeks
Tue Aug 22, 2023 12:16 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Rachel Riley Post
Replies: 76
Views: 16551

Re: Rachel Riley Post

Could it possibly also be, given the somewhat ambiguous posts that they put out (which seemed to even imply that they may be planning to keep him), that they were trying to gauge the reaction if they were to retain him, and only after it has become clear that it was completely untenable for them to...
by Mark Deeks
Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:18 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Deathwatch 2017
Replies: 467
Views: 210160

Re: Deathwatch 2017

Might not mean anything to anyone here, but, Magoo the rapper just died.
by Mark Deeks
Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:57 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Rachel Riley Post
Replies: 76
Views: 16551

Re: Rachel Riley Post

Someone can't just demand someone's opinion on a subject and expect them to research it. That's a selective interpretation of what happened. Adam essentially demanded consistency from you, not your opinion. If you saw fit to pass judgement with the previous "I see that Rachel Riley has decided...
by Mark Deeks
Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:44 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Rachel Riley Post
Replies: 76
Views: 16551

Re: Rachel Riley Post

If Rachel Riley knows more about the case than I do She really does. You can be quite intellectually lazy sometimes, far more willing to give opinions than research them. Like Jono says, the case has taken place very publicly, and there's transcripts/audio files out there from which to draw your ow...
by Mark Deeks
Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:37 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Rachel Riley Post
Replies: 76
Views: 16551

Re: Rachel Riley Post

And she's right. Mason Greenwood can fuck all the way off.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:57 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Also, in addition to all apparently being made of empty space with the occasional magnetic lump in it, how can basically everything - from the shorts I am wearing right now to the pencil on the table over there to the table itself to the bit of wood that just hit the window - all be made of carbon?
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:56 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

I'll be honest, I still don't really get it. It's like when they say that molecules (or atoms or whichever it is) are made up of electrons or whatever orbiting nucleuses through magnetism, meaning they are mostly just loads of empty space. How can everything be made up of mostly empty space! And why...
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:54 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Something really dense can be massive but not big.
Half a mind to report you for this personal attack.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:12 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

I don't think I understand the difference between big and massive in this context!
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:57 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

How can there be a shitload of gravity if there's not, like, a giant lump in the middle that actually causes it?
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:56 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Deathwatch 2017
Replies: 467
Views: 210160

Re: Deathwatch 2017

I'm saying. 2023. It's up there.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:33 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

What actually is/happens in a black hole? How can there just be nothing?
by Mark Deeks
Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:26 am
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 15th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 33)
Replies: 27
Views: 3269

Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 15th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 33)

I launched Avi TV, centred around business, wealth and success.
by Mark Deeks
Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:52 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Replies: 758
Views: 400507

Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams

Myself and Lauren Hamer opened a car wash just outside Derby, one we jointly operated while dressed in differently inappropriate ways - her, with a denim skirt jacked up to the armpits in that way usually seen in 95 year old men, and me in a scuba suit with a purple felt hat. Lauren was clearly the ...
by Mark Deeks
Sun Aug 13, 2023 1:27 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

It's possible. If they can smell cancer from outside the body then they can definitely smell certain countrysidey smells through a Volvo window. If it isn't that, though, then I've no idea. It can't have been time because no two trips ever took the same amount, and he definitely wasn't looking out t...
by Mark Deeks
Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:43 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

When I was young, we would load up the dogs in the car and make the drive to my Granny's house a few times a year. It was about 100 miles/2 hours each way. Every single time, without fail, our dog Sam - who had been sitting in the back with his head down the whole way, not looking out the window or ...
by Mark Deeks
Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:32 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown ELO Ratings
Replies: 23
Views: 4627

Re: Countdown ELO Ratings

There were three eras. The Kirk era, the Innis era, the Jack Worsley era. All three unplayable in their era for everyone except Conor, who straddles the timelines and remains the greatest player the game has ever seen.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:55 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown ELO Ratings
Replies: 23
Views: 4627

Re: Countdown ELO Ratings

Perfectly willing to accept that Rob Foster is the Lionel Messi of Countdown.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:45 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown ELO Ratings
Replies: 23
Views: 4627

Re: Countdown ELO Ratings

but might forever be plagued by the "can he do it on a wet Wednesday night in Salford?" question
Point taken, but, ehhh, the guy's sublime. He could do it any night anywhere. (Matron.)
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 10, 2023 2:22 am
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Big Ben
Replies: 25
Views: 4305

Re: Big Ben

The rare ass/diq/ars/crunt scramble.

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by Mark Deeks
Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:23 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Big Ben
Replies: 25
Views: 4305

Re: Big Ben

Anything including "midnight" it turns out is quite a good time.

#BigBenGame for 🕧00:16:31
361 points ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Longest word: TELLINGS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
by Mark Deeks
Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:10 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Replies: 758
Views: 400507

Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams

With no obvious connection to the plot of the rest of the night's dream - which broadly consisted of Danny John-Jules driving a commercial airliner down the A421 towards Bedford at about warp nine and wondering why the thing wouldn't lift off the ground - my sleep brain did a jump cut to a large emp...
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:17 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

I dunno man. The flute's a sneaky-cool instrument and all, but I can't remember us beatifying a flautist before. She seems to have transcended society with it. My take on her is like Keanu Reeves, who is so personable and an all round Nice guy and you can forgive his crap serious acting. Lizzo is a...
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:16 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Replies: 758
Views: 400507

Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams

Whoever it is gets 45 bonus points. Could decide the title.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 03, 2023 5:04 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Replies: 758
Views: 400507

Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams

I also enjoyed on this journey the ways people were dreamt about. That is to say, some people were dreamt about in a Countdown context and some were not, but also, how people's depictions in the dreams of community members en masse trended in ways that could not be random and speaks to their reputat...
by Mark Deeks
Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:57 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Replies: 758
Views: 400507

Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams

In an impulsive decision which ended up taking consiiiiiiiiderably longer than I expected, I decided to put together a matrix that counted how many times Apterous/Countdowners have been specifically named as being in dreams. METHODOLOGY: Countdown and Catsdown hosts included because eh why not. The ...
by Mark Deeks
Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:14 am
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Big Ben
Replies: 25
Views: 4305

Re: Big Ben

I lied. One more.

#BigBenGame for 🕖07:11:38
322 points ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Longest word: VELVETEENS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
by Mark Deeks
Tue Aug 01, 2023 2:45 am
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Big Ben
Replies: 25
Views: 4305

Re: Big Ben

#BigBenGame for 🕞03:40:17
312 points ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Longest word: UNOPPOSING
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/

That'll do for now. Fun game!
by Mark Deeks
Tue Aug 01, 2023 2:22 am
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Big Ben
Replies: 25
Views: 4305

Re: Big Ben

Took a few goes but cracked 300. It seems it reeally makes a difference when you play, because you need them vowels.

#BigBenGame for 🕞03:16:15
320 points ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Longest word: PRIZEMEN
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
by Mark Deeks
Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:52 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Why, when your voice gets louder, does it also go higher?
by Mark Deeks
Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:03 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Deathwatch 2017
Replies: 467
Views: 210160

Re: Deathwatch 2017

A lull in star names recently, but a double whammy of George Alagiah and Trevor Francis today. Also recently - Vince Hill, Tony Bennett, Cedric Roussel.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jul 13, 2023 10:50 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdowners in the news
Replies: 238
Views: 116932

Re: Countdowners in the news

FIFTH PLACE with 32 left. Amazing.
by Mark Deeks
Wed Jul 12, 2023 9:07 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdowners in the news
Replies: 238
Views: 116932

Re: Countdowners in the news

Guaranteed a minimum of $67,700 but that number is definitely going up. Remains seventh in chips.
by Mark Deeks
Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:56 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdowners in the news
Replies: 238
Views: 116932

Re: Countdowners in the news

Hulme now playing on stream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRvDxesFEac
by Mark Deeks
Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:32 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdowners in the news
Replies: 238
Views: 116932

Re: Countdowners in the news

Hulme is up to second!
by Mark Deeks
Tue Jul 11, 2023 12:51 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdowners in the news
Replies: 238
Views: 116932

Re: Countdowners in the news

Fairly good moving day for Hulme; 441 players remaining, and he's still 29th. Guaranteed a minimum payout of $37,500.
by Mark Deeks
Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:25 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdowners in the news
Replies: 238
Views: 116932

Re: Countdowners in the news

1,517 players left, 1,507 places paid - Andrew Hulme is incredibly close to cashing in the World Series of Poker Main Event. In fact, he's 12th in chips at the end of day three.

https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts/
by Mark Deeks
Sat Jul 01, 2023 10:55 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Also, people DO die like that. Sometimes it's not the punch that kills you; it's hitting your head on the hard pub car park ground. I've ended several like that.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:06 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Per AP style, you write out numbers up to and including nine, then use numbers for 10 and upwards.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:05 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Well now you've just made it weird.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:55 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Do worms faint? If not, why not?
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:55 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Can ghosts be sarcastic?
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:54 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 631174

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

What is it about peanuts that can be so damn deathy? Why's it not like that with turnips, marzipan, fish fingers, watercress, etc?